Nature Communications, a multidisciplinary, online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group, was recently launched. The author fee for open access publishing fee ($5,000/paper) will be discounted by 20% for awhile. Self-archiving of author versions 6 months after publication will also be encouraged.Nature Climate Change is a more traditional publication that is planned to begin in April 2011.
We do not currently have plans to subscribe to either title at WU.

Notes:
Most of the "cancel online-only" titles will probably still be available in 2011 at WU medical campus [or via medical proxy which is available to DBBS graduate students free and to any faculty with joint appointments for a small fee]; also we will probably continue to have access to our current holdings (usually 1997-2010) indefinitely.
I always welcome your comments, so let me know your questions and concerns. Ruth [rlewis@wustl.edu; 935-4819]

I am happy to work with instructors on course guides for new or old classes for summer or fall. If you're interested in having me develop a course guide for your undergraduate or graduate courses, please let me know: rlewis@wustl.edu. To begin a guide, I need a general outline of the course; after the syllabus is complete, we can fine tune the guide to meet you and your students' needs. Course guides can be good starting points for research for students who may be unfamiliar with searching for journal articles, data sources or books in specialized databases and the catalog. Examples.

Note: "In Process" titles may still be REQUESTED so the book will be held for you when it is available. You may also be interested in browsing an alternative listings of new books, by broad call number areas.

In June, we will be reviewing and revising our book collecting profiles for the books that come in automatically under various subject, publisher, and format parameters. Of course, we will continue to buy books and ebooks on request as well. If there are subject areas where you believe we are buying too many or too few books, this would be an excellent time to discuss these issues with your subject librarian, Ruth Lewis, email: rlewis@wustl.edu, phone: 935-4819.

The Federal Research Public Access Act FRPAA is once again before the House of Representatives and the Senate. It would require every federal department and agency with an annual extramural research budget of $100 million or more to make their research available to the public within six months of publication. Agencies would include Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Precise mechanisms are not worked out of course. More info:Federal Research Access Bill Making Progress in CongressAlliance for Taxpayer Access

Foreign students and postdocs may be interested in knowing about some of the World Newspapers available from WU Libraries. Our newly acquired PressDisplay file may be especially useful. PressDisplay includes more than 1000 newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. Usually only the most current 60 days are available on a rolling file basis.